The Daily Telegraph newspaper gardening column lists the fernery
in Southport's Botanic Gardens as the best in England and the second best in
the whole of the UK.
The Telegraph describes our fernery as "A splendid
example of one of the many public ferneries constructed in the nineteenth
century. Opened in 1876 and recently restored, the walls are covered in tufa,
steps lead up to viewing platforms above grottoes at each end, and mirrors
reflect endless ferny vistas"
John Dodd and his fellow councillors will fight to save the Botanic
Gardens fernery and the aviary from the proposed cuts that the Labour Leader of
Sefton Council decided to consult on.
An online version of the Telegraph gardening column about
ferneries is here.
